What kind of medicine was used?!
Question:
What kind of medicine was used?
A couple of years ago I went to an oral surgeon to have 2 teeth pulled.
I was given medicine through an IV and I was completley gone.
When I woke up I was crying.
Was I given general anesthesia?
Or was I given something else?
I don't think it was general anesthesia because I thought that could only be used in a hospital.
I was fine when I woke up.
I am just curious about what I was given.
Answers:
If it was general anesthesia, you would have been intubated through one of your nostrils.. Under GA you cannot breathe on your own and most likely required an anesthesiologist MD to monitor your life support while you are under.
If you didn't have intubation, then you were able to breathe on your own, and what you got was conscious sedation.
The anesthetics used in GA and CS vary from institution to institution.. The particular hospitals where I worked in seem to prefer using propofol as an induction agent, then fentanyl (a narcotic in the same opiate family as heroin) and midazolam (a hypnotic) in their oral surgery departments for conscious sedation.